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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 12/07/2011 - 09:24 Quercus has become the latest publisher to join the iBookstore, making the likes of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy available for iPad and iPhone. The publisher does not yet...
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As booksellers look for new services to attract customers, many are increasingly turning to language and writing classes, and are even teaching mah-jongg and tarot. "You name it, we'll do it if it has any relationship to being able to read," says...
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 07/07/2011 - 08:50 A fourth Living Oasis bookstore in two weeks has announced its closure, with the once 19-strong Christian bookselling chain now in rapid decline. Living Oasis in Chester will shut...
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Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 06/07/2011 - 07:32 La Martinière is the latest French publisher to sign up to sell e-books through Apples iBookstore. About 150 La Martinière and Seuil titles are available so far, with...
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Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 09:35 The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is to ask the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to investigate after Pearson reached a deal to acquire the...
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Publication Date: Thu, 16/06/2011 - 09:20 Angus & Robertson has announced 42 store closures across Australia and has sacked more than 500 staff. The announcement was made on administrator Ferrier Hodgsons website as the company continues to...
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Retailing for $185,000, the Espresso Book Machine, developed by On Demand Books, costs more than the annual revenue of some independent bookstores. But with a new partnership with the American Booksellers Association to help get frontlist and...
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Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 09/06/2011 - 09:55 Faber is the latest publisher to announce it has joined Apple's iBookstore in the UK, France and Germany. Both Faber and Faber Factory titles are included. C.e.o. and publisher...
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 09/06/2011 - 09:19 Private equity firm Najafi Companies is reportedly in discussions to buy Borders in America. The Wall Street Journal said "people familiar with the matter" said the firm, which...
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Six mornings a week, 78-year-old Richard Press turns a key at a humble doorway facing the sleepy, elm-shaded corner of 19th and F streets. LEDE - Richard Press turns the pages of a 1972 book of "William Blake's Water-Colour Designs For the Poems of...
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